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10 Pfennig - Trier
| Issuer | Stadt Trier (City of Trier) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Within an outer beaded border, a circular legend reads KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE around the upper arc, with STADT TRIER along the lower arc, the two separated by five-pointed star ornaments. An inner beaded circle encloses the large numeral 10 centered in the field, denoting the denomination in Pfennig. The plain field within the inner circle and the use of concentric pearl borders are characteristic of wartime municipal emergency token coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1917) - F#549.3A (Ø20.5 mm - 20.9 mm) - 400,000 ND (1917) - F#549.3Aa) Av: both corners of the arm from `T` in TRIER points down ; baseline of first `T` in STADT is over the space between the 3. and 4. pearl - ND (1917) - F#549.3Ab) like a) but baseline of `T` is over 4. pearl - ND (1917) - F#549.3Ac) Av: right corner of `T` points up ; baseline of `T` from TRIER is 0.5 mm from coat of arms corner ; Reverse: space between 1 - 0 is 1.0 mm ; L from KLEIN points to space between 2 pearls - ND (1917) - F#549.3Ad) like c) but space between baseline of `T` and coat of arms corner is 1.0 mm - ND (1917) - F#549.3Ae) like c) but space between 1 - 0 is 1.5 mm - ND (1917) - F#549.3Af) like e) but `L` points to a pearl - |
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Trier's municipal coinage of 1917 belongs to the broader Kriegsgeld phenomenon — German cities and towns issuing their own small-denomination tokens as the imperial coinage system collapsed under wartime metal requisitioning. Zinc was adopted precisely because copper, nickel, and aluminum had all been redirected to munitions production by that point in the war. Trier, sitting in the Rhineland and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Germany, had both the civic infrastructure and the commercial need to fill the vacuum left by the retreating Reichsmünze supply.